Post #1904

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.
—Pierre Laplace

Post #1890

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
—Juvenal

Post #1822

That one man should die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call tragedy.
—Thomas Carlyle

Post #1821

Say, O wise man, how thou hast come by such knowledge? Because I never was ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
—Johann Gottfried von Herder

Post #1809

Knowledge exists to be imparted.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Post #1807

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Post #1777

Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in imitation is universal.
—Aristotle

Post #1715

All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.  In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife's maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle.
—Samuel Johnson

Post #1681

Readers may be divided into four classes:

1. Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 
2. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 
3. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 
4. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also. 

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Post #1499

Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.
—Henry Felton

Post #1366

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candle at our lamp, without depriving ourselves of any flame.
—Jane Porter

Post #1293

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

—José Ortega y Gasset

Post #1257

A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

—Mark Twain

Post #1247

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
—Benjamin Disraeli

Post #1227

Practice is the best of all instructors.

—Publilius Syrus

Post #1204

No man is wise enough by himself.
—Titus Maccius Plautus

Post #1109

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
—Tryon Edwards

Post #1083

Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
—Dalai Lama

Post #1052

Comment is free, but facts are sacred.
—C.P. Scott

Post #991

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
—Oscar Wilde